Ramona Fotiade

This volume examines a number of landmark conceptual shifts that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity, mortality, resurrection and eternal life. Drawing together some of the best international scholars in the field, the volume provides for the first time a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion today (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction), illustrated through original critical interpretations and previously unpublished writings by three major contemporary philosophers of religion: Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Luc Nancy.

A documentary film co-scripted and produced by the Director of the Lev Shestov Studies Society and Passager Productions to mark the existential philosopher's 150th anniversary. Several interviews with specialists from France, Canada, Switzerland and the UK accompany the biographical and critical interpretation of the author's interaction with French and German intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s, as well as his influence on post-war European philosophers and writers. The film was launched during the retrospective exhibition organised at the Mairie du 6e, in Paris, between the 24th March and the 9th April 2016.

This paper explores notions of realism, evidence, undecidability and faith in the context of our relationship with images following the digital revolution and the transition from a culture of analog photographic and filmic records to the new space-time of virtual reality. The argument provide a reappraisal of modern and post-modern conceptions of the photographic image and of film (in the works of Roland Barthes, Chris Marker, Deleuze and Derrida), which have queried the inherent realism of the indexical photographic sign, and have highlighted the fraught ontological and temporal nature of images supposed to document and extend our perceptual relationship to reality, beyond the confines of time. The films discussed in this paper include: Luis Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, Chris Marker's La jetée, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Alain Resnais's Last Year in Marienbad and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, and Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love.